Software Engineer - Backend

Position Overview:

We are seeking a Node.js Developer with 1-2 years of experience to join our team. The ideal candidate should have hands-on experience in backend development, a solid understanding of JavaScript, Express.js, and familiarity with databases. You will be responsible for developing and maintaining server-side applications, collaborating with front-end teams, and ensuring optimal performance.

Key Responsibilities:

• Backend Development: Build and maintain server-side applications using Node.js and Express.js.
• API Development: Design and implement RESTful APIs to support various functionalities.
• Database Management: Work with both SQL (MySQL, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB) databases.
• Code Quality & Testing: Write clean, reusable, and testable code while following best practices.
• Performance Optimization: Optimize applications for speed and scalability.
• Troubleshooting & Debugging: Identify and resolve application issues to ensure smooth operations.
• Security Implementation: Apply basic security measures to protect applications and data.
• Collaboration: Work closely with front-end developers to integrate UI components with backend logic.

Required Qualifications:

• 1-2 years of experience in Node.js backend development.
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript and ES6+ concepts.
• Hands-on experience with Express.js or similar frameworks.
• Familiarity with front-end technologies (HTML, CSS, React/Angular is a plus).
• Experience working with databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB).
• Basic understanding of asynchronous programming and event-driven architecture.
• Experience with Git for version control.
• Knowledge of basic cloud services (AWS, Azure, or GCP is a plus).
• Understanding of Docker and containerization is an advantage.
• Good problem-solving skills and willingness to learn.

• Looking for sr.java full stack developer
• java, springboot, angular 2/4/6/8, html and css
• experience with unit testing
• good exposure to oops

We are looking for a Node.js Developer responsible for managing the interchange of data between the server and the users. Your primary focus will be the development of all server-side logic, definition and maintenance of the central database, and ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end. You will also be responsible for integrating the front-end elements built by your co-workers into the application. Therefore, a basic understanding of front-end technologies is necessary as well.

• Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers with server side logic
• Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code
• Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications
• Implementation of security and data protection

• Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers
• Build efficient, testable, and reusable PHP modules
• Solve complex performance problems and architectural challenges
• Integration of data storage solutions

• Strong knowledge of PHP web frameworks
• Understanding the fully synchronous behavior of PHP
• Understanding of MVC design patterns
• Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3
• Knowledge of object-oriented PHP programming
• Evolved Understanding of accessibility and security compliance
• Strong knowledge of the common PHP or web server exploits and their solutions
• Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
• User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
• Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system
• Familiarity with limitations of PHP as a platform and its workarounds
• Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes
• Familiarity with SQL/NoSQL databases and their declarative query languages
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git

• A graduate or postgraduate degree in Computer Science or IT Engineering
• 3+ years of work experience developing commercially successful web products
• Experience with analytics and process automation
• Attention to detail and a disciplined mind
• Extraordinary analytical and logical prowess
• Common Sense and Curiosity

About us:

Strata is a commercial real estate investment platform that offers investors the opportunity to invest in pre-leased commercial assets such as offices, warehouses, and retail spaces across India.

We are one of the fastest-growing PropTech platforms in India and are backed by Elevation Capital, Mayfield, Kotak Investment Advisors, Gruhas (a venture by Nikhil Kamath of Zerodha) and DLF Family Office.

Our headquarter is in Bangalore, India.

We are a small yet close-knit team of 35+ people.

About you:

You have a knack for product and strongly equipped with engineering skills to make it a reality. You don’t jump into implementation unless you have clearly understood the problem/requirements and have a written design. You don’t hesitate asking questions and giving critical reviews while respecting others’ opinions. You are a fearless engineer, and not afraid to fail, not on production though ;) You have a strong sense of ownership. You have a startup experience. You don’t feel annoyed if required to work on off days in case of production incidents (no development).

Your responsibilities:

You will primarily work on the backend maintaining the existing platform and writing new enhancements and features. Apart from your own features, as a senior member of the team you will be expected to be actively involved in overall design discussions and peer code reviews. You will factor in extensibility, maintainability, scalability and security in designs and code. You will ensure that best engineering practices are followed. You will support your team members when they are facing challenges, and mentor them when appropriate. You will strive for overall engineering excellence.

Must-have Skills:

• 4-8 years of total experience
• 2+ years of experience in Django and DRF. You must be pro at it. The team will be looking up to you for making most out of DRF.
• Designing and building  scalable web applications
• Good understanding of REST principles
• SQL database design and queries
• Working knowledge of AWS

Good-To-Have Skills:

• Angular or any other JavaScript frontend framework
• Designing microservices
• DevOps experience

FAQ's.

1. Your technology ingredients?

Programming languages:
Our backend is written in Python using Django framework. And the frontend is in AngularJS. Currently there is no mobile app.

Infrastructure:
We are an AWS shop and use their services for most needs, Docker for containerization and ECS as orchestrator, RDS as database, S3 for storage and SQS as messaging backend.

Other tools:
BitBucket for Git and CI/CD pipeline, Trello for project management; and Google Meets and Slack for communication.

2. Your hiring plan?

Currently the engineering team comprises of 3 engineers, and we plan to grow it to 8 by the end of 2021.

3. Your Interview process?

We will try to finish the process within two weeks. In case we can’t go ahead with  your candidature, we will clearly and immediately let you know. But in case of competing applications, we may request you to wait for a week or two.

1. 15 minutes introductory call to discuss requirements and expectations
2. 30 minutes online coding assignment on a screen sharing session
3. 1 hour technical interview covering problem solving, code review and aptitude
4. 15 minutes call with co-founder for final discussion

In case of inability to come to a conclusion from either side, we may go for an additional round.

4. Your WFH and WFO policy?

Due to Covid-19 the team is working from home and will continue till March-2022. After that we will work from the Bangalore or Pune office (yet to be finalised). You should be open to relocate to any of the cities.

5. Your funding status?

In March 2020, Strata raised $1.5 million in seed funding; and $6 million in Series-A in July 2021.

What you bring to the table

• Education: Bachelor's degree in IT, computer science or related
• Experience: 5-9 years of relevant experience for SSE role
• Exposure to microservices, API management tools like Swagger
• Must have experience in working on Agile Scrum teams in the past and exposure to any of the Agile project management tools like Jira, Mingle, RTC, TFS etc.
• Proficient in application log analysis.
• Experience Java/JEE Development - especially EJB 2.1 / 3.0, JDBC
• Experience with application servers such as JBoss AS or IBM WAS is an advantage
• Experience in SQL programing using PostgreSQL / MySQL /Maria DB and JPA (Annotation Based)
• Knowledge of build tools such as Maven or Gradle and of continuous integration tools such as Jenkins, Nexus
• Basic knowledge of web services (SOAP or REST) and web technologies (HTML, CSS, JS)
• Basic knowledge of containers like Dockers, basic knowledge of cloud infrastructure
• Ability to interact and coordinate with employees at different levels, different groups, and different geographical locations within the company
• Ability to support multiple existing applications as well as work on building new ones
• Ability to provide accurate project estimates and make recommendations on specific technologies to use based on business requirements
• Good verbal and written Communication.
• Readiness for short term Domestic and International Travels

Preferred

• Industry knowledge with respect to payments systems and processing in the Debit/Credit and Account based payments (EFT Switching) from different channels like POS, ATM or ecommerce, Card Management System and Real Time Payment Systems.
• Exposure to the Interchange Interfaces like Visa Net, MasterCard, BankNet
• Exposure to Interchange Simulators and Mandates Management.

Aimed at building a massive parallel economy, This For That, is looking for highly driven engineers to build out a world class product. The product is in its early stages so there’s a lot to learn and build from scratch. You will get to work alongside seasoned business and marketing professionals and become part of the core engineering team.

Ideal skills:

1) 2-5 years of professional JavaScript development experience

2) Understanding of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds

3) Comfortable working through the entire stack from the user interface through systems levels

4) Understanding accessibility and security compliance

5) Strong Logical and Analytical Skills

6) Experience in consuming web services (REST) and processing data (JSON)

7) Experience with SQLite, NoSQL, Redis or other databases

8) Proven experience in building API services using NodeJS Express and related frameworks

9) Good understanding of NodeJS asynchronous runtime

10) Good understanding of JS concepts on callbacks and closures

11) Experience in debugging issues related to memory leaks

12) Experience in building highly scalable and high throughput services with sub-second response times

13) Experience with ElasticSearch/Solr

14) Experience working in a collaborative team environment

15) Ability to understand and analyse issues across multiple vendors and interfaces

16) Experience with NoSQL queries

17) Experience with AWS

18) Experience in managing/mentoring small teams

In depth knowledge of all of the above is not mandatory but the nature of the work will involve learning and getting involved with all of the above. You would be working directly with key members of the management team to define and drive technical strategy.

Experience in the mobile space is mandatory. Please only apply if you have been part of building a mobile product. Since our product is mobile only, it is essential that you understand implications on the front end.